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Intracavitary melanoma of the left atrium
C C Canver1, T Z Lajos, Z Bernstein
1Department of Surgery, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, State University of New York, Buffalo 14203.
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|February 1, 1990
Abstract:
A 32-year-old man was seen with shortness of breath and increasing fatigue. Echocardiography revealed an intracavitary mass occupying the entire left atrium. The lesion was resected using cardiopulmonary bypass and found to be a large malignant melanoma. This case represents the rare occasion in which antemortem diagnosis of malignant melanoma within left atrium permitted successful palliative surgical resection. The patient is alive and active 6 months after operation.